Peter Hengl

is a

Writer & Director

↓

His first cinematic feature film is

A psychological horror thriller

 

 

 

 

It premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2022

and was shown at over 30 Festivals worldwide including
Fantastic Fest,
Sitges Film Festival,
Sydney Film Festival,
Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival,
BIFAN,
and many more.

 

 

 

What the press has to say:

Peter Hengl’s stunning debut Family Dinner finely balances the beauty and terrors of meat in a slow burning feature that’s cooked so tenderly, it falls right off the bone. - Dread Central

Family Dinner unfurls its methodical slow-burn tale in the days leading up to Easter Sunday, centering volatile relationships and strict, peculiar holiday traditions to create deep-seated psychological dread. - Bloody Disgusting

That Haneke-ian sense of inescapable doom ... it’s super effective brutal stuff. - Pajiba

The film is well written, especially well-directed, and perfectly cast. - Screen Anarchy

Hengl does a fantastic job of creating an immediate sense of unease. - Daily Dead

He co-wrote several works for TV with Marc Schlegel,

including the comedies

Curling für Eisenstadt

&

Man kann nicht alles haben

Together with Lola Basara

he is part of Capra Film

 

 

Some more info about Peter

• He was born in Kufstein, Austria.
• He currently lives in the lovely 7th district of Vienna, Austria.
• He is addicted to chocolate.
• He studied at the Vienna film academy where his main professor was Götz Spielmann and where he attended the classes of Michael Haneke.
• He befriended a pair of crows on his balcony that visit him daily in exchange for nuts. Mmmh, nuts.

You can contact Peter at contact@peterhengl.com

Or find out more about him at his Linktree.